Draft article by Edward MacLysaght titled ‘S.R. Lysaght: The Author and the Man’. The file also contains a copy manuscript titled ‘Another Imaginary Conversation / 3 Dec. 1931’ compiled for an article titled: ‘Sidney Royce Lysaght: the author and the man’, published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1975), pp 225-229. The piece was written by Edward MacLysaght. The manuscript refers to family reminiscences pertaining especially to his father, Sidney Royse Lysaght (1860-1941), an Irish writer, who worked in the iron industry. His son, Edward MacLysaght (1887-1986), was a writer and authority on Irish family history. The file also includes two copies of ‘The amazing war experiences of Patrick Lysaght / An Irishman of the Royal Irish Rifles / the first unit to meet the Germans at Mons in 1914’. It is noted that this narrative was first recorded in December 1938.
Copy prints compiled for an article by Michael Corcoran (1930-2018) titled ‘Six decades of Irish Road Transport’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977), pp 325-39. The file includes many historical prints of trams, buses and other forms of public transport
Photographic prints showing various people and scenes in Slovakia in 1949. The prints are annotated on the reverse and include:
• ‘The laughing faces of young Slovakia’. • Crosses marking ‘victims of the mountains in Slovakia’. • ‘Holy Mass on a Sunday in Slovakia, Summer 1949’. • ‘A Slovakian Bride’.
Facsimile prints and drawings compiled for an article by Arthur H. Mitchell titled ‘Some of the Irish with Washington’ published in 'The Capuchin Annual' (1977), pp 70-88.The documents were sourced from a facsimile pack published by the Academy Press on Irish connections with the American Revolutionary War. The file includes a copy drawing of a group portrait by Lawrence O’Toole illustrating Irish connections with George Washington and the American Declaration of Independence.
Copies of ‘Diarmuid Ó Donnabháin Rosa, 1831-1915 / souvenir of public funeral to Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, August 1st, 1915'. Includes commemorative essays and poems by Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh, Arthur Griffith, James Connolly, Brian O’Higgins, and others. The roster of the O’Donovan Rossa Funeral Committee is extant on p. 24. Published in Dublin (Patrick Mahon, printer, 3 Yarnhall Street), in 1915.
Two copies of the ‘Speech of Roger Casement from the dock / Executed in Pentonville Prison, August 3rd, 1916.’ (Dublin: published by Fergus O’Connor, 1916).
Letter from ‘Kitty’ enclosing clippings from the 'Cork Examiner' (9 July 1938) re the handover by the British military of Spike Island in Cork Harbour under the terms of the Anglo-Irish agreement. The articles also refer to the escape of Irish republican prisoners from Spike Island in 1921. The letter is addressed to ‘Joe’ but also refers to Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. It is dated 6 Jan. 1956.
